Kevin O’Toole and Rick Cotton are replacing John Degnan and Patrick Foye as Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman and executive director, respectively. O’Toole is a former New Jersey legislator; Cotton is special counsel to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

New marching orders

The city is mandating new safety precautions for J’Ouvert, the violence-marred festival that kicks off the annual Labor Day West Indian Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. They include starting at 6 a.m. rather than 2 a.m. and installing 12 NYPD security checkpoints. No alcohol, large bags or backpacks allowed.

Anchor away

Katie Couric, Yahoo’s global news anchor since 2013, is not extending her contract with the site.

Data point

Bette Midler’s star power in Hello, Dolly! has helped Broadway gross receipts surge 20.5%, to $327 million, this year over last. attendance is up 6.9%, the Broadway League said.

Couric, who was reportedly paid $10 million a year, will remain busy developing a Netflix show and National Geographic specials.

Grapes of wrath

A vase depicting Dionysus, the god of winemaking, is currently decorating Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s evidence room. The piece, created circa 360 B.C., previously graced the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greco-Roman galleries. But it’s suspected of having been looted from an Italian tomb in the 1970s.

23 skidoo

Macmillan Publishers is heading to the Financial District. The company will vacate the Flatiron Building in 2019 to make its imprint on 261,000 square feet at Larry Silverstein’s 120 Broadway. Macmillan joins the trend of media companies going south.

Bum steer

The mechanical bull at Johnny Utah’s, a bar on West 51st Street, has thrown more than just riders. It has tossed a reported $198,500 toward injury settlements. Patrons are required to sign a waiver before mounting the beast.

Behaving in class

The city’s schools just finished the safest year since 1998, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Arrests declined 8%, and summonses issued fell 11% from the previous school year. But charter school advocate Families for Excellent Schools said the state recorded 10,000 more serious misconduct incidents not reported by the NYPD.

Nothing to see here

The NYPD confessed to having cleared homeless people from two subway stations on July 23 ahead of the arrival of the mayor and reporters on the F train. Commissioner James O’Neill said the station sweeps were made only for safety concerns.

Fat chance

Morton Sloan, whose clan controls Morton Williams stores, is considering legal action to stop the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from requiring calorie-count labels on prepared foods next month. He said his stores would not be able to comply.

Respect at last

A plaque for late comedian Rodney Dangerfield was unveiled in Kew Gardens, Queens, next to a railway station near his childhood home. The bronze memorial bears Dangerfield’s 1939 Richmond Hill High School yearbook photo.

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